Saturday, February 16, 2013

What’s wrong with the Canadian empire?

Exactly that,
it’s an empire. The only reason Quebec is in Canada today is
because of a military invasion that occurred over 250 years ago.
That is the fundamental fact about Canada: it is the product of war,
of conquest, not consensus. And that war is still going on. The war
of the Conquest (or the French and Indian war or the Seven Year war,
as it is known to some) has never really ended. It continues in the
ongoing low-intensity conflict the Canadian empire wages to preserve
itself. As the great Clausewitz once wrote, war is about imposing
your will on the enemy. This is exactly what the Canadian empire has
been doing by (mostly) psychological means (with a few notable
exceptions). Psychological war, after all, is still war.

The two main
weapons in this war are intimidation for most Quebecers and bribery
for a small clique willing to sell out their country for personal
gain. The traitors are well-known. Trudeau, Chrétien, Dion,
Desmarais, Charest, Couillard and others do their utmost to preserve the empire
because it’s profitable for them to do so. The intimidation was
most clearly visible in the form of the War Measures Act during the
October crisis which had nothing to do with fighting the FLQ and
everything to do with terrifying people with the wrong political
opinions. The intimidation may not always be overt, but it is always
there. Not only did the WMA serve as an example as to what might happen,
but more significantly, the de facto
impunity of the RCMP officers involved in various crimes and dirty tricks sent an even more insidious message. This impunity for those
who commit crimes in the name of imperial unity sends the message
that no mere laws will stand in the way. It undermines the very
meaning of any “charter of rights”. Indeed, the WMA and the
abuses surrounding it weren’t
counter-terrorism but rather counter-terror.

However,
not all intimidation comes from the state. The Canadian people
themselves play an important part by approving, tacitly or otherwise,
the repressive measures taken by Ottawa. Indeed, Trudeau never would
have invoked the WMA if he didn't think he could get away with it
politically. Likewise, the Canadian people strongly support the
infamous anti-democracy law, euphemistically called the “clarity bill”. But sometimes, the relationship is inversed. Such as when
enraged Anglos burned down the United-Canada parliament building in
Montreal in 1849 because it was about to enact legislation
compensating inhabitants of Lower-Canada who suffered losses during
the revolts of 1837-38, this was not commanded by the government, but
since it was carried out by “United Empire Loyalists” no one was
punished. One can easily imagine that if Quebecers carried out
actions one tenth as bad, the punitive results would have been very
different. All this brings us back to the issue of impunity
undermining the rule of law.

The dual
combination of intimidation and bribery means that the Canadian
empire rests on fear and greed. This is hardly surprising as all
empires are about the management of fear. By definition, an empire
is the domination of one nation by another nation through the use of
force. Having no inherent legitimacy, empires maintain themselves by
the chronic use of force or by threatening to use force, either
explicitly or implicitly. For political reasons, it is profitable
for empires to get members of the conquered nation to perform the
repression. This is where bribery and greed come in. It’s in the
empire’s interest to keep the subject nation divided, and this is
precisely the role of the PLQ in Quebec. Naturally, all this bribery
leads to corruption. While there is a lot of corruption in Quebec,
it’s no accident that all those involved are federalists. The root
cause of this corruption is that the PLQ and federalists in general,
are more concerned with pleasing Ottawa and its unofficial viceroy
(Paul Desmarais Sr.) than serving the interests of Quebec. And of
course, they and their dependents expect to be generously rewarded
for their services.

In closing, we
return to where this article began: Canada is war. The war of the
Conquest morphed into a system of domination of the Quebec people and
an ongoing campaign of cultural genocide, both outside Quebec and
within it. Talk of equality and freedom of choice by Anglos today is
pure hypocrisy because they know perfectly well that in the present
context it favors them and hastens our assimilation. But this
hypocrisy, and the racism that accompanies it, is also a product of
Canadian imperialism. Truman once said something to the effect that
you can’t keep a people in the gutter without getting into the
gutter yourself. He was referring to the plight of African-Americans
in the 1950’s, but it also applies to how Canada dominates Quebec.
Such domination not only makes Quebecers cynical and resigned, but
makes Canadians hypocritical, racist and pretty creepy. The
independence of Quebec would not only liberate Quebec, but it would
also free Canadians of the mental straitjacket necessary to keep
their empire together. On that day, Canadians will wake from their
imperial illusions and see Quebec and themselves with clarity and
lucidity.

Hey Dude,Honestly I don't support the way you hate the conquest. As much as it is "bad", without it Québecois wouldn't be what we are today. We'd probably be something akin to St-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

It is because of the conquest that we became independent from France. Without the conquest, we wouldn't have had to resists assimilation the way we had. We wouldn't have had the crise d'octobre where some of us were so pissed they fell into terrorism (some would say heroism).

As much as the conquest sucks, we wouldn't be the badasses that we are today without it.

And when it comes to why we need independance, I wouldn't say it's about language anymore. The real reason is the last federal election, when the rest of Canada elected Harper and we elected Layton. We can debate why we have different views from the others provinces, and your text is a pretty good theory, but I don't care how it happened. We are politically opposed to the rest of the country,for me that's enough to choose independence.

What is the problem with St-Pierre-et-Miquelon ? Is that "as bad" as Les îles de la Madeleine ??

Does RaccoonDave about the anti-Canadien apartheid that anglos used to get rid of most francophone populations of Canada, not to mention the Acadian deportation ? Does he know the white-neger status that our nation was kept into, forcing half of all Canadiens to permanent exile ?? About the Guilde of Orange, the anti-Catholic and anti-French KKK Kanada, the Doric Club, the "no dogs, no jew, no black" beaches and the "no jews is too many" ???

How could anyone say that the British occupation of Canada was a good thing if he knew those things ?

RaccoonDave does not seem to know also that la " crise d'octobre " was at least as much the fact of federal police agents provocateurs who had burnt buildings and put bombs as well during that period (http://canadalibre.ca/textes-divers/flq-grc/).

Everything that is passed cant change. But makes ourselves complete as we are of today. Us as we are can improve again so we can avoid to make our past errors again.It is because of the conquest that we became independent from France. Without the conquest, we wouldn't have had to resists assimilation the way we had. We wouldn't have had the crise d'octobre where some of us were so pissed they fell into terrorism (some would say heroism).

Vey interresting, because I was talking about that with an american friend on facebook the other day.

It wanted to understand why we, the french in Quebec, we wanted to separate and get our independance from Canada.

We spoke a while and we came down to exactly what you say in your article. Contrary to the USA where the country was formed after the independance of the colonies (The United States are a federation of ex-colonies (States) working together, The state of the Union speech is exactly about it). So the USA came together with consensus.

But Canada was basically created from war. There war never any war to unify anglos and francos to gain Canada's independance from England. The winner of the war, England, ordered to assimilate the French and took pretty much all their land. When France and England concluded the Threaty of Paris, New-France territorry was bigger then what Quebec is today. The crown of England decided to create 2 canadas. High Canada and Lower Canada. What we now know as Quebec, wa smostly Lower Canada where the French lived. But after a few years, they saw that Franch wwre not getting assimilated fast enough, so they merged Lower and High Canada together to create Canada.

Now instead of having two colonies, they had one colony, one governor. That colony was Canada as we know it. Canada had 1 parliament, and since the majority of the canadian population were anglos, it was a lot easier to assimilate the French by simply giving them an illusion of democracy. The French could never really win.

And so this is still the way Canada works today, and like RacooneyDave said, we, the french, don't have the same political opinions than the Rest of Canada, it always have been like this. In WWII we were against going in war, but anglos were. We know what happenned after, conscription and French on the front line.

Democratically speaking, it is just simply normal that anglos runs the country, because they represent more than 75% of the population. But Quebecers never felt canadian and their political opinions proves that they're very different than rest of Canada. Independance is the ONLY way Quebecers will ever be able to lives to their expectations. As long as we'll be part of Canada, we'll simply be the minority getting bad politics imposed on us.

« after a few years, they saw that Franch wwre not getting assimilated fast enough, so they merged Lower and High Canada together to create Canada »

Not exactly : The creation of two separate Upper and Lower Canada allowed one of those to be English only after a short while. Its only when anglo populations were large enough to dominate the Canadiens in one single parliament that the colonies were merge together with Nova-Scotia and New-Brunswick - ex-Acadia colonies which were largely English due to the deportation of Acadiens. From then on, the Canadiens did not have real power over their state and the assimilation really did start.

Québec franco population has been Canadiens since the very beginning of their presence in the New-World, long before the anglo occupation. Canada has existed for over a century and a half before any English could sail up the St-Lawrence without being sunk and go across the Appalachians without being scalped.

Hence, Québécois are the Canadiens and anglos are essentially something else that has taken their name to impose their domination because what has no name does not exist.

The same about the Canada's national anthem, by the way. The Oh! Canada was written and composed by real Canadiens to be presented for the first time on St-Jean-Baptiste day 1880. It's only decades later that english versions were created.

And the maple leaves, the beaver, the mouse, etc. Most Canada symbols existed before the anglos took 'hem.

Very well written and intelligently argued. The problem is that logic and intelligence mean very little in public discourse these days. You would be far more successful in reaching your aims by some type of "propaganda" related to the economic benefits of separation. The way things appear to me is that the fear of negative economic ramifications is what prevents the population of Quebec from achieving independence. It is very sad indeed and you have my sympathies--I am from Serbia, but part of my youth was spent in Quebec and it is a far better and more progressive place than the rest of Canada.

Even if the terms of the article unfortunately make it essentially unreadable to any Anglo federalist (they refuse to conceive of Canada as anything but the nicest place on Earth), I must say thay I love this sentence, which i agree with wholeheartedly : « Such domination not only makes Quebecers cynical and resigned, but makes Canadians hypocritical, racist and pretty creepy. »

All this is, is propaganda, i was born in quebec, i see the flaws of your province, if the PROVINCE of Quebec were to leave, it would fail to reach power, with its struggling economy and relying on other provinces to pay everything the country will definetly be poor, if it were up to the quebec gov't you would've killed all the immigrants that arent french or dont speak french, all i see with the republic of Quebec is a republic of hatred, a republic of racism, a republic of FAILURE, and nevermind the french being in canada first, the NATIVE AMERICANS WERE HERE FIRST, the english let them call themselves canadian , the british colonized it and called the citizens born them called anglo-canadian or french canadians (wether the nationality of parents,not the region of were they were born) so if you refer to us as anglo's i will refer to you as franco's, to those that say there was a canadian apartheid, you clearly dont know what the meaning of apartheid means, apartheid means segregation and not counting the votes of a certain race, that has never happened in canada, and to those that say that the conquest of new france was of racial hatred and of repression of the french people, the french began the war and GB capitalized off of it , and btw GB had Rupert's land around the same time as the french had new france and acadia, I'm sorry but Quebec's independence movement is that of the french canadians not liking the Anglo-canadians or German-Canadians or the true Canadians,

Long live the Queen of Canada, Long live the Canadian Kingdom, Long live the PROVINCE of Quebec

Jacob B: you make some great comments here. I'll respectfully disagree with you about the British monarchy; I feel that it should be abolished in Canada. However, we share many of the same opinions nonetheless.

It's especially silly for some francophone ultra-nationalists to refer to MOC (Most Of Canada) by the official name of Taiwan/Formosa, that is. the ROC (Republic Of China). Of course, the People's Republic OF China (mainland China, the PROC) views the ROC as a renegade Chinese province, but that's another story altogether.

I am always pleased to hear some anglo-imperialist pretend that my nation can not freely chose be free from his because we are « so poor » .. **under their control**. It is just another good reason for us to get rid of anglo-supremacists.

Seriously; how low does one need to go to justify hateful propaganda to pretend that anglos leaders in canada would be incompetent enough to lose money over a territory and a people that are under their control.

«« The crime of Apartheid is defined .. as inhumane acts "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group .. »»

the reason why french is'nt the main languages of those provinces is cause the french people never reached saskatchewan or ontario. And if that is considered apartheid than what is happening in quebec NOW is considered apartheid. And by the way I am not Anglo-Canadian I am GERMAN-CANADIAN born in Quebec, you are not canadian you are FRENCH-CANADIAN, the true canadians are the Natives, or i shouldnt call them that, the true canadians are the Iroquois, the Wabanaki, the Obijwe, the Algonquin, and The Inuits. There are many many more tribes that should be the TRUE CANADIANS, all you are sir or madam, is a racist, franco-supremacist,

Remember that I am not canadian, I am GERMAN-CANADIAN, you are not canadian either you are FRENCH-CANADIAN, I,ve also read up that an ANGLO-CANADIAN put in the Bilingual act to make EVERY SINGLE FUCKING PROVINCE IN THE REST of THE COUNTRY BILINGUAL, WHILE IN QUEBEC IMMIGRANTS HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO BE TAUGHT FRENCH, THE ONLY LANGUAGE IN QUEBEC IS FUCKING FRENCH, DONT YOU FUCKIN' DARE SAY THAT THIS COUNTRY IS MOTHERFUCKING RACIST, DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS OTHER PROVINCES IN THE U.K. EXPELLED THE FRENCH CANADA DID'NT AFTER WWI WE DIDNT EXPEL THE GERMANS, WE TOOK THEM IN AFTER SEVERAL LONG YEARS AT WAR, THE QUEBEC PROVINCIAL GOV'T WANTED TO EXPEL THEM, SAME THING IN WW2 WHERE WE DETAINED THE JAPANESE UNDER AMERICAN ORDERS, THE QUEBEC GOV'T WANTED TO EXPEL GERMANS, AUSTRIANS AND HUNGARIANS DURING THE WAR BUT CANADA SAID NO. Don't you dare insult the country that took my family where other countries did'nt. All you want is a repubic where the french own the other nationalities

LONG LIVE THE QUEEN, LONG LIVE THE CANADIAN MONARCHY AND LONG LIVE THE QUEEN OF QUEBEC

No natives ever called themselves Canadien until far in the 19th century. Ignorant. They still care more today about their native nation than about anglo-imperialist canada.

There is only one nation that's the Canadiens for 405 years : Us. The name and the land are from us, the Ô Canada, the Beaver the Goose and the Maple Leaf are our own national symbols. All stolen from us and its only because of more than two centuries of ethnic cleansing that we are not majority populations in Canada today.

Anyone who hates what we are and wants us to disappear or just be another ethnics like any other immigrants is fundamentally negating Canada and Canadiens and must be an hypocrite when he calls himself a Canadien.

anglo-Canada is racist. Anglo-Canada is built on ethno-centric English supremacism.

Canada is bilingual because there is Québec and New-Brunswick. The rest is plain flat monolingual English. The federal government is NOT Canada and those are the province that are responsible for the language in the public sphere. Learn your facts, ignorant.

The queen and any other monarch is nothing but some barbarian dictator with jewels. Any one who worship that as a very serious problem.

«« If Mr. Jacob wants to know about 300 years of anglo-supremacist ethnic cleansing in this country, Mr. just needs to ask Canada Libre about that. »»

He a list of some facts, to start with :

What anglos have brought to Acadiens, Métis, Canadiens and Natives :

- Deportation of the Acadians. Spouses separated from each other, parents separated from children, brothers and sisters separated from each others. 60 % died during the process.

- Massacres of the Natives and the Metis (Pontiac, Batoche, Louis Riel.. ), parking of the survivors in concentration camps (reservations), internment of generations of their children in forced assimilation institutions.

- Each and every peace treaty broken.

- Natives starved to death for medical experimentations

- Imposed federation of all territories and provinces under one centralized power.

- Anti-French apartheid all over the non-Québec Canada for more than a century to eradicate French speaking majority populations.

- Real Canadians (the French) forced into the status of "white ne88ers" – their main living condition indicators under anglo-imperialist domination equal or worse than those of the blacks in USA -. Yet the native’s conditions were even worse than those.

- More than half of real Canadiens forced into permanent exile in order to survive while the governments were heavily sponsoring targeted immigration from Western Europe.

- Imposed charter of rights and constitutions designed specifically to make it impossible for the real Canadiens to protect their language and their culture.

- State terrorism to fake separatist groups (FLQ) ; federal police putting bombs in Montréal, publication of false communiqués, anglo-army occupation of Montréal in 1970, hundreds of people jailed for months with no charge against them, etc. All of that in order to destroy the peaceful and democratic Québec independence movements.

- Criminal activities against Québec regulations to win the two referendum votes on Québec sovereignty.

- Instrumentalization of the ethnics, obligation to move to Montréal to get citizenship, threat of losing it if they voted YES (Parizeau was right ! )

massacres of natives? not only did the english do this, but so did the french on a larger scale, the french conned the natives out of their lands, sending them north, the french massacred unarmed canadians. montreal's true name is Hochlaga, the pontiac rebellion was in OREGON, louis riel was a rebel who hated the french canadians as much as the english canadians. each and every peace treaty broken NAME ONEnatives staved to death, The USA did that in our country without consent, and anglo and french canadians had the same test's done on them by the USA.anti-french apartheid, DID NOT FUCKING HAPPEN, TRUE APARTHEID IS WHAT HAPPENED IN SOUTH AFRICA, WE DID NOT SEGREGATE THE FRENCH, WE DID NOT MAKE LAWS HEAVIER ON FRENCH CANADIANS,more than half of french canadians forced into exhile, SHOW YOUR PROOF,the charter of rights was designed to protect ALL LANGUAGES, WHAT IF YOUR LANGUAGE WAS BANNED FROM BEING SPOKEN AT WALMART, YOU WOULDNT LIKE THAT WOULD YOU?

STATE TERRORISM? NO JUST ONE TERRORIST IN DENIAL,

Oh and threat of losing citizenship cause they voted yes, we both know thats bullshit,

now my turn, the rest of canada is bilingual to help the french culture,

90% of people who voted NO were barred from voting in this last "election" of Pauline Marois

The acadians imprisoned all of the scottish settlers and sent to camps, where 75% died cause of this,

the recent turban ban in quebec funcionaries is considered by most countries as an apartheid starter

the language laws are also considered as an apartheid starter

i can say much more but i wont

Long live the queen, Long live the Canadian Confederation and Long live the PROVINCE of Quebec

The Great Peace of Montréal :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Peace_of_Montreal

«« The Great Peace of Montreal was a peace treaty between New France and 40 First Nations of North America. It was signed on August 4, 1701, by Louis-Hector de Callière, governor of New France, and 1300 representatives of 40 aboriginal nations.

..

Commerce and exploratory expeditions quietly resumed in peace after the signing of the treaty. The French explorer Cadillac left Montreal to explore the Great Lakes region, eventually founding the city of Detroit, which had a promising future. Jesuit priests resumed their spiritual mission-based work in the north. The Great Peace of Montreal is a unique diplomatic event in the history of the Americas. The treaty is still valid and recognized as such by the Native American tribes involved.

The French, in negotiating followed their traditional policy in the Americas, where the relationship with the natives was characterized by mutual respect and admiration and based on dialogue and negotiation. According to the 19th century historian Francis Parkman:

CL, this guy clearly has mental heath issues. It's also quite clear that he doesn't know anything about history. He just makes things up. I would say that arguing with him is quite pointless. Just saying...

no you are not canadians, we are both canadians, but a different form, if your ancestrual roots are from france, that makes you french-canadian, since my family is from bavaria in germany i am bavarian-canadian but i didnt want to confuse you, you sir are not true canadian, neither am i, the true canadians are the natives, they have their own names, but it all means the same thing, they are the first nations of canada, they are the true canadians, sir fuck you and long live the queen, the canadian confederation and the province of quebec

Since you hate so much everything that's truly Canadien - the identity, the heritage, the roots, the history, the language, the culture, etc. - you and the rest of anglo nation should find another name than ours for yourselves. N'est-ce pas ?

you think, just because you think you were at canada first, well your wrong, Norway had a colony in 1000-1100, does that make norweigians the true canadians? how bout portugal, not long after colombus reach america, another explorer claimed large parts of labrador and quebec for portugal, he is labradors name sake, does that make the portugeese canadians the true canadians? no it does not, so then, why should the french-canadians be the "true canadians"

«« .. people with Solutrean tool-technology crossed the Ice Age Atlantic by moving along the pack ice edge, using survival skills similar to those of modern Eskimo people. The migrants arrived in northeastern North America and served as the donor culture for what eventually developed into Clovis tool-making technology. Archaeologists Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley suggest that the Clovis point derived from the points of the Solutrean culture of ***southern France (19,000 BP)*** through the Cactus Hill points of Virginia (16,000 BP) to the Clovis point.[1][2] ..»»

Remember, the British were founding cities in Quebec BEFORE the french, the Scots were founding cities in quebec and acadia before the french. I have no respect for Harper, I am a monarchist liberal. I am an equalist between races. I believe that you are just trying to be some reactionary. who has no idea of progress. Cultures mix, and form more cultures, when the french arrived, and started mating with the natives, thus created the french-canadian culture. But it was definetly not the first canadian culture, it wasnt even the first european-canadian, the first euro-canadian culture was the scottish canadians. Now accept you werent here first, thus not making you canadian. It makes you PART CANADIAN. again I repeat the true canadians are the natives. I wish you discontinue your reactionary ways, and be open to change

Long live the Canadian Confederation. The Queen of Canada, and the Queen of Quebec.

I belive in the monarchy, so if the head of state was temporary, he'd only be focused on re-election, not serving the people. By equalist, I believe in the ELECTIVE MONARCHY OR A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY, to restrict the power of the monarch.

Just for the record, I am not quebec Bashing. I am racism bashing. Just cause i support EQUAL rights, doesn't mean I'm against quebec. I live in montreal, and all I want is Harmony between everybody, not supremacy for one